THE Random Manual Audit (RMA) Committee has released the official list of clustered precincts selected for random manual audit Tuesday. Representatives of the RMA team will be deployed to 715 cities and municipalities nationwide to manually count the votes. The results will then be compared to the election returns prepared by the Board of Election
By VERLIE Q. RETULIN THE Random Manual Audit (RMA) Committee has released the official list of clustered precincts selected for random manual audit Tuesday. Representatives of the RMA team will be deployed to 715 cities and municipalities nationwide to manually count the votes. The results will then be compared to the election returns prepared by
By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL THE Commission on Elections has tripled the number of random manual audit (RMA) precincts compared to previous elections to boost public confidence on the accuracy of results, Commissioner Luie Tito Guia said Tuesday. From 234 precincts in 2013, a total of 715 precincts will be employed for the RMA this May,
By MIKHA FLORES THE automated counting of votes in the May 13 elections proved 99.9747 percent accurate, according to results of a random manual audit (RMA) of votes in more than 200 precincts nationwide. The 99.9747 percent accuracy rate is slightly higher than the percentage reported in the 2010 elections, but still falls short of
By MIKHA FLORES THE Commission on Elections has identified the 234 towns and municipalities across the country where a random manual audit (RMA) will be conducted after the May 13 elections. Election Commissioner Christian Robert Lim said the audit will check whether the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines accurately counted the votes cast. “It is
By BUENA C. BERNAL THE Commission on Elections today rejected the proposed parallel manual count, saying this will lead to “old modes of cheating,” particularly the “resurrection of sleeping Garcis.” “A manual count — in essence, a regressive step belatedly being shoe-horned into the final preparations for the automated elections — will be extremely vulnerable